http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/is-your-school-reading-boring/ Learning difficulties including dyslexia. Download testing sheets Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/is-your-school-reading-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Dawn Matthews Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:04:40 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/is-your-school-reading-boring/#comment-20 Understanding of dyslexia not only varies from country to country but from school to school and teacher to teacher. This is mostly due to the fact that studying dyslexia, and how to teach children with it is not mandatory in most training colleges. It is frequently given as an option and those who choose this option sometimes become very interested in it and go on to be great teachers for these kids. Those that don’t can actually go through their whole teaching career never having to learn about it. It seems very odd to me that a condition effecting as many as 15% of the school population (according to the Orton Dyslexia Association) does not have to be studied by every teacher. Also of cause a teachers interest and expertise depends on what books or materials they have studied. Not all books are as easy to follow and understand as mine are. The best teachers are those who have a known dyslexic in the family or who are themselves dyslexic. And yes I’m by no means the only dyslexic teacher. Dawn Understanding of dyslexia not only varies from country to country but from school to school and teacher to teacher. This is mostly due to the fact that studying dyslexia, and how to teach children with it is not mandatory in most training colleges. It is frequently given as an option and those who choose this option sometimes become very interested in it and go on to be great teachers for these kids. Those that don’t can actually go through their whole teaching career never having to learn about it.
It seems very odd to me that a condition effecting as many as 15% of the school population (according to the Orton Dyslexia Association) does not have to be studied by every teacher. Also of cause a teachers interest and expertise depends on what books or materials they have studied. Not all books are as easy to follow and understand as mine are.
The best teachers are those who have a known dyslexic in the family or who are themselves dyslexic. And yes I’m by no means the only dyslexic teacher. Dawn

]]> http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/is-your-school-reading-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Liz Ditz Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:43:21 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/is-your-school-reading-boring/#comment-14 I have another question: why is there such variation in the English-speaking countries on the early diagnosis and remediation of dyslexia? I have another question: why is there such variation in the English-speaking countries on the early diagnosis and remediation of dyslexia?

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